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From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Technical udev question for Greg
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:24:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF75D26.5070009@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040103214750.GB11061@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:47:08PM -0800, walt wrote:

>>I acidentally ran a script which ran MAKEDEV
>>while udev was running.
>>
>>Now /dev/.udev.tdb is very large and devices have strange permissions
>>they didn't have before.


> As udev didn't get called when runinng MAKEDEV, I don't see how the udev
> database could have grown.

Well, after doing the steps below the size of the db didn't seem any
smaller, true enough.


>>All I want to do is delete all the extraneous devices in .udev.tdb
>>and start over.  How do I do that?


> 	rm -rf /dev/*
> 	rm -f /dev/.udev.tdb
> 	/etc/init.d/udev start

However, after doing the above and recreating a few missing devices
the behavior of the machine seems back to normal, so clearly I did
something that mattered.  I don't pretend to understand how or why,
but thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-04  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-03 20:47 Technical udev question for Greg walt
2004-01-03 21:47 ` Greg KH
2004-01-04  0:24   ` walt [this message]
2004-01-04  0:59     ` Martin Schlemmer

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